SCMS World AIDS Day letter to colleagues
On this World AIDS Day, we celebrate what has been accomplished in such a short time. Working in partnership, countless governments, ministries of health, donors, non-government organizations, faith-based organizations and others have replaced resignation with hope for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS
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SCMS's Report: Three Years of Saving Lives
Overview of SCMS achievements during the past three years. As of December 31, 2008, SCMS had delivered $247 million in HIV/AIDS commodities, including $153.2 million of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, $39.8 million of HIV test kits and $42.8 million of laboratory supplies.
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SCMS Overview Brochure
SCMS works to strengthen existing supply chains in the field, buys and distributes essential medicines and health supplies, and facilitates collaboration and the exchange of information among key donors and other service providers.
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart January - December 2009
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for January 2009 - December 2010 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management.
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart for September 2008 - October 2009
Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart October 2008 - October 2009 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart June 2008 - July 2009
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for July 2008 - June 2009 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart April 2008 - March 2009
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for January - December 2008 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart January - December 2008
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for January - December 2008 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management.
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart Oct 2007 - Sept 2008
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for October 2007 - September 2008 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management.
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Historical Past Orders - Comparison Chart July 2007 - June 2008
Historical comparison of ARV purchase orders for July 2007 - June 2008 placed through SCMS and the Partnership for Supply Chain Management.
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Frequently asked questions - procuring commodities through SCMS
Learn how to work with SCMS on procuring products needed for a comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment program.
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Frequently Asked Questions for Regional Distribution Centers
Learn how Regional distribution centers (RDCs) that operate in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa and are being used to store and distribute the most frequently requested essential medicines and other health products.
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Frequently Asked Questions - specialized food products
Learn about FBP (food by prescription) programs are providing food and nutrition interventions as part of clinical HIV care and treatment. The objective of FBP is to improve health, nutrition, antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence and survival outcomes.
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Frequently Asked Questions – Counterfeits
Learn about the issues of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and their implications for HIV/AIDS programs. Find out how SCMS is combating counterfeits by obtaining drugs directly from the manufacturer, using a regional distribution centers (RDC) system serving PEPFAR countries, and conducting selective sampling and physical examination of the drugs.
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Frequently Asked Questions - For Vendor and Supplier
Learn how SCMS selects suppliers and the kinds of products SCMS procures.
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Guyana in Brief
Strengthening systems to save lives: Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of quality medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS in Guyana. Seven years ago, there was little chance for survival among people living with HIV/AIDS in Guyana. Today, care and treatment are available to everyone in the country who needs it, extending lives and giving hope.
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Mozambique In Brief
Donor Coordination in Mozambique: The Key to Expanding a Succesful Program. In 2006, the number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment at Mozambique’s Ministry of Health sites more than doubled. This significant increase is the result of an unprecedented level of funding coordination between the Mozambican government and key donors.
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Rwanda In Brief
Coordinating Donor Funds to Scale Up HIV/AIDS Treatment in Rwanda: On the Road to Success. The number of people receiving antiretroviral treatment in Rwanda has nearly doubled in the past two years, while the cost of procuring life-saving medicines has been significantly reduced. Rwanda’s success in assuming ownership of donor coordination has been key to reaching these milestones in the country’s HIV/AIDS response.
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Food In Brief
Leveraging Supply Chain Best Practices for Food by Prescription Program.
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Botswana In Brief
In Botswana, Strengthening Drug Registration to Improve Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment.
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Côte d'Ivoire In Brief
Côte d’Ivoire’s New Community Reporting System Puts Data on the Fast Track.
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Namibia In Brief
In Namibia, Improvements to Warehousing Support Scale-up of HIV/AIDS Programs.
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Nigeria In Brief: In Nigeria, Building Local Capacity from Day One
During the first years of PEPFAR, drug logistics was often an after-thought for Implementing Partners (IPs). In Nigeria ad hoc systems were established to enable each IP to deliver as many supplies as needed to the sites they supported. Multiple supply chains often serving the same sites are inefficient, costly and hinder sustainability. Significant work is needed to integrate these parallel systems—each with its unique design parameters and operating procedures—into a unified HIV/AIDS logistics system.
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Freight and Logistics In Brief
Although ARV prices have fallen as low as $90/year for some regimens, most countries still have more patients needing treatment than they can serve with available funding. Traditionally, most programs have used costly air freight for shipping HIV/AIDS commodities. SCMS, the largest procurer of ARVs for PEPFAR programs, determined to reduce shipping costs in order to help clients redirect money saved for other purposes, including ARVs and other treatment and testing commodities.
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Quality Assurance In Brief
SCMS’s risk-based routine-drug-inspection sampling and testing program thus far has prevented counterfeit products from entering PEPFARsupported supply chains, yet substandard products have been reported.
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Report of HIV/AIDS Commodities Survey and Supply Chain Status Assessment in Tanah Papua
This report includes the results of the survey and situation assessment undertaken and recommendations of future logistics activities.
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SCMS Response to World AIDS Day 2008
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day and the third anniversary of SCMS. We should take this opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of those dedicated to combating this epidemic, reflect on the lives that have been lost and commit ourselves anew to continue this fight.
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Ethiopia Commodity Security Brochure
Meeting the Challenge of Universal Access: Commodity Security through Systems and Coordination
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Ethiopia Distribution Brochure
Saving Lives and Costs in Redesigning Ethiopia’s ART Supply Chain System
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Ethiopia HACTS Brochure
HIV/AIDS Commodities Information Tracking System in Ethiopia: An Innovative Approach for Better Informed, More Rapid Decision-Making
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Ethiopia Laboratory Logistics Brochure
Ethiopian National Laboratory Logistics System: Overcoming Despair through a Systematic Response
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Ethiopia Monitoring and Evaluation Brochure
How a rapdily expanding public health chain in Ethiopia transitioned from an activity focused to a results-based management.
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Ethiopia Quantification Brochure
From NEED to PRODUCTS and SYSTEMS: Role of Quantification in the Rapid Scale-up of a Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Response
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Self-instructional Training for New Medicine Dispensers in Vietnam
The purpose of this report is to serve as the basis for publishable articles which will provide the international public health community with a description of how SCMS Vietnam planned, implemented and evaluated an underutilized, cost-effective and successful training methodology for dispensers antiretroviral medicines. That methodology consists of a self-instructional training manual.
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